3. The Tricky Stuff

There are some caveats to using MokaFive with ease. First, the process to convert your virtual machine is complex, and not well explained on the company’s Web site. MokaFive did promise me that they will improve their documentation so that mere mortals can do this type of environment conversion without a lot of coaching.

Second, you want to pick the best-performing external hard drive you can find. Not all USB key drives are the same, and the more data you store on them, the faster you’ll need if you are going to be running your virtual desktop session from them. (Look for a future review of the best-performing high-capacity thumb drives on Tom’s Guide in the near future.) You might want to experiment with storing some of these disk images on empty space your iPod, so you don’t even have to travel with another storage device. You’ll need at least 2 GB to store your Live PCs, and your storage device should be formatted with the FAT rather than HFS.

The free version of MokaFive can do almost all the same things that the professional version can, except for some of the admin functions, like the ability to create Live PC versions and deploy them across an entire enterprise.

So, If you’re tired of taking your laptop through airport security checkpoints, or even of lugging it across town, check out MokaFive. You might leave the laptop at home more often.